CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The last Democratic National Convention that gathered without a Kennedy in Congress was held in Chicago in 1944, only six weeks after the D-day invasion, at a time when typewriters, telephones, and teletypes were the gold standard of communication.
Nearly seven decades later, the two-dozen family members who gather in Charlotte, N.C., will find themselves in that unfamiliar position again, without a standard-bearer of national clout since the 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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There is something very sad about a nation's majority political party that thinks so little of its contemporary leaders that it needs to keep trying to resurrect a family as if that family was its only royalty. And this in a nation that dumped a royalist tradition 229 years ago. The Democrats seem to be saying to Barry Hussein Obama, "We knew the Kennedys, and you ain't no Kennedy".